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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most answers on SO are either from a doc page, are common patterns found in multiple books, or is mostly opinion-based. Most code AIs are significantly better at the first two without even being trained on SO (which I wouldn't want anyway - SO really does suck nowadays)

[โ€“] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Would you say the same about Wikipedia?